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- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES
- DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES
- CHAPTER I ON THE USE OF BRONZE IN ANCIENT TIMES
- CHAPTER II THE BRONZE AGE
- CHAPTER III THE USE OF STONE IN ANCIENT TIMES
- CHAPTER IV TUMULI
- CHAPTER V THE LAKE-HABITATIONS OF SWITZERLAND
- CHAPTER VI THE DANISH KJÖKKENMÖDDINGS OR SHELL-MOUNDS
- CHAPTER VII NORTH AMERICAN ARCHÆOLOGY
- CHAPTER VIII CAVE-MEN
- CHAPTER IX THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN
- CHAPTER X ON THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN—continued
- CHAPTER XI MODERN SAVAGES
- CHAPTER XII MODERN SAVAGES—Continued
- CHAPTER XIII MODERN SAVAGES—Conclusion
- CHAPTER XIV CONCLUDING REMARKS
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
- Plate section
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES
- DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES
- CHAPTER I ON THE USE OF BRONZE IN ANCIENT TIMES
- CHAPTER II THE BRONZE AGE
- CHAPTER III THE USE OF STONE IN ANCIENT TIMES
- CHAPTER IV TUMULI
- CHAPTER V THE LAKE-HABITATIONS OF SWITZERLAND
- CHAPTER VI THE DANISH KJÖKKENMÖDDINGS OR SHELL-MOUNDS
- CHAPTER VII NORTH AMERICAN ARCHÆOLOGY
- CHAPTER VIII CAVE-MEN
- CHAPTER IX THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN
- CHAPTER X ON THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN—continued
- CHAPTER XI MODERN SAVAGES
- CHAPTER XII MODERN SAVAGES—Continued
- CHAPTER XIII MODERN SAVAGES—Conclusion
- CHAPTER XIV CONCLUDING REMARKS
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
The passage from Avienus is as follows:—
Quæ Himilco Pœnus mensibus vix quatuor,
Ut ipse semet re probasse retulit
Enavigantem, posse transmitti adserit:
Sic nulla late flabra propellunt ratem,
Sic segnis humor æquoris pigri stupet.
Adjicit et illud, plurimum inter gurgites
Extare fucum, et sæpe virgulti vice
Retinere puppim dicit hic nihilominus
Non in profundum terga demitti maris,
Parvoque aquarum vix supertexi solum:
Obire semper huc et huc ponti feras,
Navigia lenta et languide repentia
Internatare belluas.
Staigue Tort, in the County of Kerry, is “an enclosure, nearly circular, 114 feet in diameter from out to out, and in the clear 88 feet from east to west, and 87 from north to south. The stones are put together without any description of mortar or cement; the wall is 13 feet thick at the bottom, and 5 feet 2 inches broad at top at the highest part, where some of the old coping stones still remain, and which is there 17 feet 6 inches high upon the inside. It has one square doorway in the S.S.W. side, 5 feet 9 inches high, with sloping sides, 4 feet 2 inches wide at top, and 5 feet at bottom. In the substance of this massive wall, and opening inwards, are two small chambers; the one on the west side is 12 feet long, 4 feet 7 inches wide, and 6 feet 6 inches high; the northern chamber is 7 feet 4 inches long, 4 feet 9 inches wide, and 7 feet high. They formed a part of the original plan, and were not, like other apertures in some similar structures, filled-up gateways.
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- Pre-historic Times as Illustrated by Ancient Remains, and the Manners and Customs of Modern Savages , pp. 493 - 494Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1865